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The Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, announced on Tuesday, November 3, 2020 that the US presidential elections “will not affect” at all the political approach of Iran towards the United States.
“With regard to the United States, we follow a reasonable, calculated and specific policy, and this policy cannot change as people change,” Khamenei said.
“Today is Election Day in the United States. Things can happen but they do not concern us. Our policy is specific and the change of faces will not affect our policy at all,” he said.
The date of this year’s US elections in Iran coincides with the anniversary41 From the American hostage crisis that erupted on November 4 1979 After storming the US embassy in Tehran.
And the process ended after 444 Days with the liberation of the Americans52 It caused a national upheaval in the United States, cut off diplomatic relations between Washington and the Islamic Republic, and continues to poison relations between the two countries.
Iran and the United States have been on the brink of war since June 2019 In the context of the tension in the Gulf and the Iranian international nuclear agreement concluded in Vienna in 2015.
In 2018, outgoing US President Donald Trump unilaterally withdrew from this agreement and pursued a policy of “maximum pressure” on the Islamic Republic by imposing economic sanctions that plunged the Iranian economy into a severe recession.
